what happens when russia starts using them against former soviet republics or china? you know, what kind of world do we want to create? too many things that we do we do because we can without thinking, you know, it's a national missile defense. we can develop national missile defense. the fact that it does not work does not seem to concern anyone, but we still portend billion dollars into it every year because we can instead of not having missile defense and get serious about cutting back strategic offensive arms. we still have 2500 deployed, 2500 reserve and a couple thousand others. tactical nukes still have not been addressed. there is a lot to do. maybe if we had an arms control and disarmament agency that runs and abolished because jesse helms made in nervous, maybe we can address those things. what happens -- there used to be an arms control lobby in this country that was quite effective. i don't see much of their activity anymore. >> the other question was, we have been very successful rebuilding the country. world war two, japan, germany. how come it's difficu